Parliament Hill Calendar – August 20, 2018

Parliament Hill Calendar: Events and Ministers’ Schedules

• 9:00 a.m. – Kamloops, BC: The Honourable Scott Brison, President of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Government, will be at Thompson Rivers University on August 20, on behalf of the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, to celebrate the completion of an infrastructure project supported through the Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund.
• 10:00 a.m. – Escuminac, BC: The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, will make an important announcement about new supports to address the challenges faced by seasonal workers.
• 10:00 a.m. – Victoria, BC: The Honourable Filomena Tassi, Minister of Seniors, will visit the Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society – Welcome Gardens and make an announcement.
• 10:00 a.m. – Victoria, BC: The Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, will visit the Oaklands Community Centre and will highlight improvements that enhance the Canada Child Benefit.
• 10:30 a.m. – Kamloops, BC: The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, will be at the BIG Little Science Centre to announce local recipients of funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s PromoScience Program. 
• 11:00 a.m. – Victoria, BC: The Honourable Filomena Tassi, Minister of Seniors, will visit the Victoria West Lawn Bowling Club.
• 11:00 a.m. – Vancouver, BC: The Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism, will visit the South Hill Neighbourhood Centre.
• 11:00 a.m. – Ty-Histanis, BC: The Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, Catherine McKenna, will make an announcement regarding the completion of an infrastructure investment project in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.
• 12:00 p.m. – Victoria, BC: The Honourable Filomena Tassi, Minister of Seniors, will visit the Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary.
• 12:30 p.m. – Nanaimo, BC: The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, will be available to take questions from the media following a roundtable discussion on digital and data transformation.
• 1:00 p.m. – Richmond, BC: The Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion, will visit Sable Shortbread to make announcement on behalf of the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour.
• 1:45 p.m. – Victoria, BC: The Honourable Filomena Tassi, Minister of Seniors, will visit the Central Saanich Senior Citizens Association.
• 2:00 p.m. – Victoria, BC: The Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, will tour Camosun College.
• 2:00 p.m. – Surrey, BC: The Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism, will visit the Fleetwood Public Library.
• 3:15 p.m. – Vernon, BC: The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, will be at the Okanagan Science Centre to announce local recipients of funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s PromoScience Program. 
• 3:30 p.m. – Victoria, BC: The Honourable Filomena Tassi, Minister of Seniors, will visit the Cowichan Community Policing Advisory Committee Society
• 4:00 p.m. – Burnaby, BC: The Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism, will visit the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre.
• 4:15 p.m. – Victoria, BC: The Honourable Filomena Tassi, Minister of Seniors, will visit the Cowichan Green Community Society.

Prime Minister’s Itinerary

• 10:00 a.m. – Navan, ON: The Prime Minister will deliver remarks at the official groundbreaking event for the new Amazon fulfillment centre.

Parliament Hill Calendar: Chamber Business

• The House is adjourned until Monday, September 17, 2018

Parliament Hill Calendar: Committees

• Nothing Scheduled

List of Committees of the House of Commons

• ACVA Veterans Affairs
• AGRI Agriculture and Agri-Food
• CHPC Canadian Heritage
• CIIT International Trade
• CIMM    Citizenship and Immigration
• ENVI Environment and Sustainable Development
• ERRE Electoral Reform
• ESPE Pay Equity
• ETHI Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics
• FAAE  Foreign Affairs and International Development
• FEWO  Status of Women
• FINA  Finance
• FOPO Fisheries and Oceans
• HESA  Health
• HUMA Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities
• INAN Indigenous and Northern Affairs
• INDU  Industry, Science and Technology
• JUST Justice and Human Rights
• LANG Official Languages
• LIAI Liaison
• NDDN National Defence
• OGGO Government Operations and Estimates
• PACP Public Accounts
• PROC Procedure and House Affairs
• RNNR Natural Resources
• SECU Public Safety and National Security
• TRAN  Transport, Infrastructure and Communities

Joint Committees

• BILI  Library of Parliament
• PDAM Physician-Assisted Dying
• REGS Scrutiny of Regulations
  

  To view Queen’s Park calendar for August 16, 2018 click here